JAX-WS and Joda-Time?

Question

How do I write a JAX-WS service so the @WebParam of my @WebMethod is a Joda-Time class like DateTime? Will @XmlTypeAdapter on a parameter work? I'm deploying to GlassFish 2.1.

Let me clarify the question because both answers so far have focused on binding custom types to existing JAXB classes, which is related but not the question I'm asking. How do I make the following @WebService accept joda DateTime objects as parameters?

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebParam;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
public interface Resender {
    @WebMethod
    void resend(
            @WebParam(name = "start") DateTime start,
            @WebParam(name = "end") DateTime end
    );

}

Answer 1

You have to annotate the parameter directly such as below (I am making use of XSDDateTimeMarshaller written by @DennisTemper as one of the answers to your question but feel free to substitute with another one...) :

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC)
public interface Resender {
    @WebMethod
    void resend(
        @WebParam(name = "start") @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(type = DateTime.class, value = XSDDateTimeMarshaller.class) DateTime start,
        @WebParam(name = "end") @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(type = DateTime.class, value = XSDDateTimeMarshaller.class) DateTime end
    );
}